iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/72 Aircraft

Hello again, second article here, 1/72 aircraft. Please click my name for a short bio if you wanna know me a little better, and if you haven't already. I tried to go somewhat alphabetical. All 1/72 unless otherwise noted: Airfix P-51B: [...]

“No idea, Joe. Tell em it’s some kind of Wonderbug Machine.”

April 1945: the US Army's Shermans are overrunning airfields faster than the AAF can shoot them up. As some GIs poke their Garands into the backs of Luftwaffe scientists and groundcrew and shuffle them off the base, other Americans take a [...]

Tamiya Corsair Mk.II, 1/48. The Fleet Air Arm.

Greetings folks, After getting more into the hobby and posting on a few other places, I've decided to make an account here and post my most recent builds. Critique is always important, and keeping confined to one forum or social media can [...]

Starting the Breed...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109V4, Luftwaffe

Built 5-10 years ago. Classic Airframes kit oob, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics. Fourth prototype of the Bf109. Was tested and saw some action in the Spanish Civil War, later designated "A".

Review: GWH 1/72 F-14A Tomcat review

Three Me 262s: Finale

I am a member of the Warbirds Aviation Modelling Group (Melbourne, Australia: (link)). Each year we have two club competitions, "Gunna Build" and "Build a “Build a B#%@#$". The "Gunna Build" is an open build [...]

Tamiya 1/48 North American P-51B Mustang

This is one of those projects that started out great, but ended on a not-so-high note. I was very happy with the construction, paint, and weathering. Alas, when I took the 26 year old decals out of the water, they shattered into a million [...]

Heller F4U-7 in 1/48

Presented for review: Aéronavale F4U-7 F.14.9, USN Bureau No 133690, by Heller, in 1/48. As noted in many French F4U articles, the black and yellow ID stripes were for 'Operation Musketeer', aka the Suez Crisis of 1956. Heller did [...]

Messerschmitt Bf110E "Wespen" Winter 1942

The 110's from the Wespen geschwader are one of my favorite German aircraft, unfortunately I never did build one, till now. This kit is the Eduard 8203 from 2007 in 1/48 scale. It does include a lot of extra PE parts which are very [...]

Disguised Aquatic Eyes in the Sky…1/48 Arado Ar196A-3, Handelsstörkreuzer 3 “Widder”

Here´s my dad´s fourth and last seaplane for a while. Italeri kit oob, fit is mostly only mediocre. The gunsight is molded onto the instrument board but was in the way of the windshield. So my dad cut it off and replaced it with a part [...]